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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the French plan to get close to the farmhouse?
(a) With barricades to protect them.
(b) By hiding behind the carriage.
(c) By waving a white flag then throwing it down.
(d) By pulling the supply wagons close to the house.

2. What does Sharpe tell Harper he plans for the troops to do?
(a) Head for the ocean.
(b) Stay where they are until the British main force finds them.
(c) March to Lisbon.
(d) Go to Madrid.

3. What does a lieutenant in a small village do in Chapter 1 right before the British are getting ready to withdraw?
(a) Steals food in his field pack.
(b) Gets drunk.
(c) Burns some crates.
(d) Takes rifle ammunition out of a crate.

4. Who wakes Sharpe in the night in Chapter 6?
(a) A monk.
(b) A soldier.
(c) Vivar.
(d) Harper.

5. What does the sergeant Williams order the riflemen to do before the second attack of the French?
(a) Form a square.
(b) Charge the French.
(c) Drop into the trenches.
(d) Go to the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams tell Sharpe is the background of many of the riflemen?

2. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?

3. What does Sharpe tell Parker his strategy is after they are in the farmhouse?

4. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?

5. What do the lieutenant's clothes look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vivar asks Sharpe and what does Sharpe decide to do after speaking with Vivar?

2. What does Sharpe ask about the strong box and what is Vivar's response? How does Sharpe respond to this?

3. With whom does Sharpe dine the first night in the fortress and why do Vivar and Alzaga argue?

4. Why does Sharpe withdraw his small force of riflemen he left in the woods?

5. Who, of the French forces chasing Vivar, does Vivar watch the most and why?

6. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

7. Who does Sharpe meet when a monk wakes him and asks Sharpe to come with him and what does this person say to Sharpe?

8. What does Dunnet order the riflemen to do when the French are charging them and what is Sharpe's response?

9. What do the British and Spanish find when they enter a village, what do they do and how do the troops feel?

10. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about Vivar's troops?

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